Artemisia Gentileschi self-portrait sold for $5.69 million at Christie’s New York, setting a new auction record for the artist. The painting is Self-Portrait as Saint Catherine of Alexandria, one of five self-portraits by Gentileschi, and likely the earliest, painted around age 20 in Florence, exceeding its $2.5–$3.5 million presale estimate. On the same day, the National Gallery of Art announced its acquisition of Gentileschi’s Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy (ca. 1625), funded by a gift from Nina J. Cohen and the Patrons’ Permanent Fund.
Artemisia Gentileschi's Hercules and Omphale, previously unknown, has been restored by the J Paul Getty Museum and will be on display as part of a new exhibition, Artemisia’s Strong Women: Rescuing a Masterpiece, opening in Los Angeles.
The article discusses Henri Matisse's 1939 work Daisies, its sale to Parisian dealer Paul Rosenberg, and the painting's fate during WWII as it became entangled with Nazi looting. It mentions Rosenberg's gallery and its connections to major artists, including Matisse, and notes that the Art Institute of Chicago purchased from Rosenberg in 1924.
The Christie’s sale results for Design and the single-owner sale American Avant-Garde: The James D. Zellerbach Residence by Frances Elkins totaled $23.6 million. The top lot was The Goddard Memorial Window by Tiffany Studios, which realized $4,285,000; other highlights included Claude Lalanne pieces and Éléphanteau armchairs by Jean Royère.
The article discusses doubts about the attribution of Samson and Delilah, a Rubens painting at the National Gallery in London purchased in 1980 for £2.5m. Rubens attribution is questioned by scholars Katarzyna Krzyżagórska-Pisarek and Christopher Wright, with critics calling the work “highly problematic” and “not a 17th-century picture.” ArtWatch UK’s Michael Daley is cited alleging extensive evidence against the attribution.
Bob Rennie and his family donated 61 artworks valued at $22.8 million to the National Gallery of Canada. The trove includes works by Rodney Graham (40), Ai Weiwei (three), Mona Hatoum (10), Yinka Shonibare (one large installation), and Dan Graham (three), among others.
The Art Newspaper reports solid sales on Art Basel's preview day, with dealers noting strength despite geopolitical and economic concerns. Notable sales included Ruth Asawa's 1955 hanging sculpture for $9.5 million at David Zwirner, and works by Georg Baselitz, Maurizio Cattelan, Rachel Feinstein, Nan Goldin, Damien Hirst, Jamian Juliano-Villani, and Ewa Juszkiewicz at Gagosian, with prices ranging from $30,000 to over $5 million; Gehard Baselitz’s oil painting Hier jetzt hell, dort dunkel dunkel sold for €1.8 million and James Rosenquist’s Playmate for $1.8 million to a European institution, among others.
El Greco, Saint Sebastian (around 1610-14) was pulled from Christie's New York sale after Romania claimed it had been unlawfully removed in 1947; court filings reveal Dmitry Rybolovlev as the owner, via Accent Delight, with Christie's holding the painting as the case proceeds. Christie's estimated the work at $7 million to $9 million.
El Greco Saint Sebastian (1610–1614) was pulled from Christie’s New York Old Masters sale after Romania claimed it was unlawfully taken from its collection. Romania has secured a long-term hold on the painting at Christie’s New York while legal proceedings in Paris continue; the work’s ownership is linked to Dmitry Rybolovlev and a prior acquisition through Yves Bouvier, with provenance records disputed.
El Greco Saint Sebastian (c. 1610-14) is at the center of a legal dispute as Romania seeks restitution for the painting. Dmitry Rybolovlev reportedly acquired the work in 2010 via an offshore shell company, while Christie’s initially listed it as transferred to the exiled king in 1947 with government consent; Romania disputes that provenance. The case involves Romania’s government and Nixon Peabody, with past associations to galleries like Wildenstein & Co.
Artemisia Gentileschi’s Lucretia, previously in a private collection for over 40 years, set a new artist record at a Paris auction. The article notes also Orazio Gentileschi’s Finding of Moses and mentions the National Gallery’s funding target.
Sotheby’s 48-lot summer evening sale in London brought in approximately £62.5 million ($84 million) with a sell-through rate of 83 percent; five works sold for over £5 million, including Tamara de Lempicka’s La Belle Rafaëla (1927) at £7.4 million and Pablo Picasso’s Nu assis dans un fauteui.
Titian and Metsys make Christie’s London Old Masters sale strongest for a decade. The sale realised £36.43m (£43.6m including premium) with 22 of 24 lots sold, and the top lot was Rest on the Flight into Egypt by Titian, purchased by a third-party guarantor for £15m.
Tamara de Lempicka’s La Belle Rafaëla (1927) sold for £7.47 million ($10.05 million) at Sotheby’s London Modern and Contemporary Evening Sale. The article notes this makes it among the top sales for Lempicka, and mentions that Portrait de Marjorie Ferry (1932) sold for $21.2 million at Christie’s London in 2020.
Pablo Picasso, Gerhard Richter and David Hockney led top sales at Art Basel Switzerland 2026, with Picasso's Le peintre et son modèle dans un paysage selling for $35 million, Richter's Abstraktes Bild (940-7) (2015) for $20 million, and Hockney's Studio Interior #2 (2014) for $8.5 million. The event featured 290 galleries from 43 countries and drew representatives from over 270 museums and foundations.
An extraordinary group of ormolu-mounted treasures — a tazza, a ewer and a monumental vase — all formerly in royal or aristocratic collections, are offered in London on 1 July
Christie’s examines PHILLIPSX PRESENTS THIERRY NOIR: RUSH HOUR, A CROSS-CITY SHOWCASE IN HONG KONG AND TOKYO and its significance for artists, collectors, institutions, or the art market.
A selling exhibition in London celebrates the founding of the annual showcase for emerging talent back in 1949. Featuring works donated by leading figures such as Michael Craig-Martin, Tracey Emin, Jadé Fadojutimi and Maggi Hambling, it will raise funds to support tomorrow’s artists
Following a $53M expansion, the beloved outdoor museum in New York’s Hudson Valley welcomes new commissions by Kevin Beasley, Sonia Gomes and Dionne Lee, as well as works by Ellsworth Kelly and a dedicated conservation building
The new museum from renowned Argentine collector and Malba founder Eduardo F. Costantini brings new cultural offerings outside the city of Buenos Aires and invites visitors to become active participants
In the final decade of his life, Dieter Scharf — scion of one of Germany’s great collecting dynasties — filled his Hamburg villa with exceptional sub-Saharan sculpture. Fifty of these works, strikingly diverse and boasting exceptional provenance, are offered in Paris on 16 June
Christie’s examines JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT LEADS PHILLIPS’ MODERN & CONTEMPORARY ART: EVENING & DAY SALE and its significance for artists, collectors, institutions, or the art market.
Benjamin Steinitz, director of the Paris antiques business synonymous with le goût Steinitz, recalls the ‘fabulously elegant’ style of his mother — a legendary tastemaker with an unerring eye for the very best — and presents some of the 130 lots offered from the family’s collection in June, with a focus on the 18th century
Phillips details PHILLIPS’ JUNE DROPSHOP RELEASE FEATURES PRINT BY TOM OF FINLAND, including the artists, works, estimates, and sale context documented in the release.
Christie’s reports on HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! MAURICE SENDAK ARTIST, COLLECTOR, CONNOISSEUR TOTALS $4,872,494. Its source account states that nEW YORK – Happy Birthday, Maurice Sendak!
Christie’s examines PHILLIPS' DAMIEN HIRST AND EVENING & DAY EDITIONS AUCTIONS ACHIEVE A COMBINED TOTAL OF £2.9 MILLION AND 14 AUCTION RECORDS and its significance for artists, collectors, institutions, or the art market.
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In the Netherlands in the 17th century, the pronkstilleven — a huge, sumptuous still life — was the ultimate badge of wealth and status, and no one made them better than de Heem. One of his finest works, depicting all manner of fruit, pewter, crayfish and shrimps, is offered in our Old Masters Evening Sale on 1 July